CS 355 Advanced Topics in Software Engineering Advanced Software Testing

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CS 355 Advanced Topics in Software
EngineeringAdvanced Software Testing

• Advanced Software Testing

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Class Information

• CSCI 355
• Advanced Software Testing , 3.0 credits
• Is taught by Dave Christian Thursday ,
  0610pm-0840pm
• From 09/03/00 To 12/10/00
• Web page with work and assignments
• http//pages.prodigy.net/dave_christian/

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Instructor Information

• Dave Christian
• Email dave_christian_at_prodigy.net
• Phone [phone] x222
• Fax [phone]

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Survey of Students

• Why are you taking this class?
• What do you want to get out of this class?

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Class Information

• Assignments
• Project
• Midterm
• Final

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1st Assignment

• Send a an email to dave_christian_at_prodigy.net
  with
• Name, email phones
• Your reasons for taking the course
• How the the may help what your doing
• Read as much as you can before each class
• Try to find new Test material on the web
• College or commercial pages.
• We can add it to our sites.
• We are interested in automated testing as well.
• If you find useful material send the URL to us.
• Check our website regularly for new assignments.

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Why do software testing?

• We want the software to work.

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Why do software testing?

• We want the software to work.
• Safety Issues - ICE Train, Boeing 777

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Why do software testing?

• We want the software to work.
• Safety Issues - ICE Train, Boeing 777
• Economics

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Why do software testing?

• We want the software to work.
• Safety Issues - ICE Train, Boeing 777
• Economics
• Failures dont answer questions
• Data Mining

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Recent Software Project Study

• Recent Study by Alex Van Lamswerde
• Studied 8000 Software Projects
• 50 were never completed
• 30 only partially completed
• 10 were completed with cost overruns
• 10 were on time, on budget, on schedule.
• The most common was cited as requirements.
• Growth, Misunderstanding, Unreachable

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Course Plan

• Learn or Relearn Basic Software Testing
• Unit Testing
• Path Testing
• Coverage Testing
• Domain Testing
• Object Oriented Testing
• Modalities
• Concurrency
• Project
• Test Plan
• Testing
• Test report